Episode 73: Feelings and Diet Thoughts with Special Guest Sarah Kirby

Diet thoughts are the kind of thoughts we’re having when we think we “should” only eat certain kinds or qualities of foods, count calories and carbs or fat grams, or other eating rules that are restrictive and based on losing weight. These thoughts are learned from our diet culture. Dieting is an obsession that allows us to focus on something very tangible and concrete, giving us the feeling that we are in control. When we understand that diet thoughts can sometimes be a response to underlying feelings, we can begin to use diet thoughts as a red flag to explore these feelings. Guest name, bio & contact infoSarah KirbySarah is a Bay Area native. Like many of us, she spent much of her teens and into her 30s brain-washed by popular culture, believing her body wasn’t good enough and that her job was to perfect it (read: be thin). Sarah is currently in graduate school at the University of San Francisco pursuing a degree in Counseling Psychology and hopes to help others make peace with their minds and bodies.   [email protected] ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★